Oven-pan for glass cylinders.



A. r. FEES. OVEN PAN FOR GLASS CYLINDERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28,1909.

4, Patented J an. 25, 1910,

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A. P. FEES.

OVEN PAN FOR GLASS CYLINDERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28,1909.

Patented Jan. 25, 1910. r

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UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

ALLISON PRICKETTE FEES, OF JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA. ASSIGNOR T0 WINDOW GLASS MACHINE COMPANY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

OVEN-PAN FOR GLASS CYLINDERS.

947,426. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 28, 1909.

Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

Serial No. 498,796.

To all whom it may concern: 5 the peculiar shape shown and arranged so Be it known that I, ALLIsoN P. Fans, a 1 that when the edge of the half cylinder C citizen of the United States, residing at lies in the angle of the standards the cylin- Jeannette, in the State of Pennsylvania, der is nearly balanced over the center of the have invented a certain new and useful pan, the other edge resting on the opposite Oven-Pan for Glass Cylinders, of which the ends of the bars 9. The tilting frame and following is a specification. the cylinder are normally held in position My invention relates to the art of making by weight 13. window glass from rollers or cylinders, and One or two of the standards 11 are proits primary objects are to facilitate the vided with recesses or hooks 12 adapted to handling of a section of the cylinder in the receive one of the wood covered prongs 15 flattening oven and to provide for a better of the lifting rod l t, and as will appear heating of the cylinder. from Fig. 3, the carriage can by this means I have illustrated the invention in one form he tilted over while at the same time the two in the accompanying drawings, wherein prongs 15 are properly placed under the cyl- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pan inder and the latter can be lifted off the pan in normal position. Fig. 2 is an end elevaand conveniently laid on the flattening stone tion showing a half cylinder in place and (see Fig. 2). The top frame of the pan will by dotted lines the tilted position. Fig. 3 return to normal position when relieved of is a perspective view showing the removal of the weight of the glass. By this means a the half cylinder from the pan to the lifting half cylinder can be introduced into the fork. oven and heated on the convex side and then It will be understood that in the practice readily turned over and moved to desired of making window glass from rollers or position without danger of breaking and cylinders, the cylinder after being cut and with perfect ease, the hooks 12 acting to ansplit is introduced into a heating oven and i tomatically place the lifting form in proper softened and flattened on a rotating table. position under the glass as well as to tip As the most effective heat is above the base over the frame and serve as a support for of the oven, the most uniform and satisfacthe fork. tory heating of the glass obtained by iu- The advantages of the device will readily troducing a half cylinder rather than a occur to those familiar with the art. whole one split along one line, and intro- Having thus described my invention and ducing the half cylinder with the convex l illustrated its use, what I claim as new and face upward. In doing this however, it desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the folwould be impracticable to flatten the cylinlowing: der except by turning it over with the con- 1. A pan for flattening ovens adapted to vex face down after the glass is heated. My receive a half cylinder with convex side up invention furnishes means for easily and and pivoted to turn the cylinder over, subsafely carrying out the suggested manipultn stantially as described. tions in the oven. 2. pan for flattening ovens comprising The oven is provided with a track coman elevated frame and a pivoted platform posed of rails 5 upon which the pan and thereon having guides to locate the proper cylinder are slid into place to be flattened. position of a half cylinder supported On these tracks I mount the pan composed t thereon. of the base 6 to which are attached upright l A pan for flattening ovens comprising studs 7 and 8, to one of which, located near i a tilting platform having means to definitely the center of the base, there is pivoted a set locate and support a handling fork to reof cross-bars 9, by the pin 10. At one side ceive a cylinder when tilted off the platform. this frame is provided with standards 11 of .4. A. plan for handling half cylinders in flattening ovens, comprising a slidable base I signed my name this 25th day of May, 1909, having an elevated tilting platform, guides in the presence of the two subscribed Witfor positioning the cylinder and guides for nesses. placing a handling fork to remove the cyl- ALLISON PRICKETTE FEES.

5 inder when the platform is tilted, substani Witnesses:

tially as described. I. O. CURRY, I J. P. CURRY.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 

